[Associated diabetes mellitus in occupational pulmonary diseases related to dust: risk factors].

The authors analysed 854 case histories of occupational bronchitis patients and 326 ones of vibration disease patients. Inpatient investigation covered 129 patients with occupational dust bronchitis and 25 patients with vibration disease. Diabetes mellitus was diagnosed in 11.

[Postnatal development of rat progeny after antenatal nicotine exposure].

The authors studied the effect of a chemically pure nicotine on the development of the first-generation progeny after subcutaneous injection of the drug into female rats throughout the entire pregnancy. The drug was injected daily with a four-hour interval, the total doses being 5; 1,5 and 0.4 mg/kg (1/5, 1/20 and 1/70 of the LD50).

[Characteristics of the effect of nicotine on the mother-fetus system in exposure over the course of the entire pregnancy].

Experiments on Wistar rats were made to study the effects of nicotine administered in doses of 0.4, 1.5, and 5 mg/kg (1/70, 1/20 and 1/5 of the LD50) on the functional state of the mother's body and embryogenesis under exposure throughout the entire pregnancy.